Elizabeth Mitchell is an award-winning journalist and the author of LIBERTY’S TORCH: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, published by Grove Atlantic. She also wrote THREE STRIDES BEFORE THE WIRE: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing (Hyperion), which The Washington Post selected as one of the best nonfiction books of the year, W.: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty (Hyperion), and the bestselling e-single, THE FEARLESS MRS. GOODWIN (Byliner). Elizabeth was th

Susan Meissner is the prolific author of thirteen novels. Her most recent, STARS OVER SUNSET Let’s start from the beginning, your beginning. Where did you grow up? I grew up in San Diego, the middle daughter of three girls. I spent my childhood in just two houses -- the second of which was my home from the time I was nine until I got married. What were you like as a kid? A teen? When I was kid, I was afraid of everything! My imagination, which comes in handy now that I am a n